It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 July 1985, and landed just under eight days later on 6 August.

Challenger landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 6 August 1985, at 12: 45: 26 pm PDT.

The orbiter arrived back at Kennedy Space Center on 11 August 1985.

* Confessions of a Contra: How the CIA Masterminds the Nicaraguan Insurgency by The New Republic, 5 August 1985

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

This early post, on August 7, 1985, describes the awards as being, " given posthumously to people who have made the supreme sacrifice to keep their genes out of our pool.

Opening on August 23, 1985, in 235 North American theaters, the film grossed $ 509, 502 USD ($ 2, 168 per screen ) in its opening weekend, on its way to a lackluster $ 4, 116, 395 total gross.

Lineker scored three hat-tricks for Everton ; at home to Birmingham City in a 4 – 1 league win on 31 August 1985, at home to Manchester City in a 4 – 0 home win on 11 February 1986, and then in the penultimate league game of the season on 3 May 1986, when they kept their title hopes alive with a 6 – 1 home win over Southampton.

Janusz Andrzej Zajdel ( 15 August 1938 in Warsaw – 19 July 1985 in Warsaw ) was a prominent Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland after Stanisław Lem.

The V705 was completed in August 1985 and taken to the US where it rolled on the roads around Santa Barbara and got positive reactions.

A bloodless coup in August 1985 had brought Major General Ibrahim Babangida to power in Nigeria, and Rawlings took advantage of the change of administration to pay an official visit.

The development of OS / 2 began when IBM and Microsoft signed the " Joint Development Agreement " in August 1985.

National Geographic magazine introduced the American cultured pearl as a commercial product in their August 1985 issue.

Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 ( with the current line up solidifying in 1985 ), the band's four members — Trey Anastasio ( guitars, lead vocals ), Mike Gordon ( bass, vocals ), Jon Fishman ( drums, percussion, vocals ), and Page McConnell ( keyboards, vocals )— performed together for over 20 years before breaking up in August 2004.

Ruth Gordon Jones ( October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985 ), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer.

In August 1985 the APC named military commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Saidu Momoh, Stevens ' own choice, as the party candidate to succeed Stevens.

SGI rapidly evolved its machines into workstations with its second product line — the IRIS 2000 series, first released in August, 1985.

Additional massacres by the Shining Path occurred, such as the one in Marcas on August 29, 1985.

* August 28 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1985 )

* August 9 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

Part 1, BYTE, August 1985, pp 120 – 136 ; Part 2, BYTE, September 1985, p 116.

* The 5ESS Switching System ( The AT & T Technical Journal, July – August 1985, Vol.

In August 1985, the service went off the air for the first time when workers striked in protest at the British government's decision to ban a documentary featuring an interview with Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin.

Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL ( 9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 ) was an English poet and novelist.

Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer discovered a new element on August 18, 1868 while looking at the chromosphere of the Sun, and named it helium after the Greek word for the Sun, ( or ).

Already in 1059 he had persuaded Robert Guiscard and Richard of Capua to become vassals of St. Peter for their newly-conquered territories: now Gregory VII immediately after his election sent for him to give an account of the state of Norman Italy and entrusted him with the negotiation of an interview with Robert Guiscard on 2 August 1073, at Benevento.

Amalfi, one of the Maritime Republics ( though already declining under Norman rule ), was conquered on 6 August 1136: the Pisans destroyed the ships in the port, assaulted the castles in the surrounding areas and drove back an army sent by Roger from Aversa.

Sir William Wallace ( Medieval Gaelic: Uilliam Uallas ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas ; Norman French: William le Waleys ; ; died 23 August 1305 ) was a Scottish knight and landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

William II ( Old Norman: Williame II ; – 2 August 1100 ), the third son of William I of England, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland.

* August 6 – Norman Wexler, Academy Award nominated Screen writer

* August 27 – Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* August 24 – Howard Florey and a team including Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, publish their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

* August 10 – Norman Scott, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1942 )

* August 24 – Tom Norman, English freak showman ( b. 1860 )

* August 22 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U. S. Army general

* August 9 – Failure of a Norman campaign in North Africa, the Norman troops are massacred near Mahdia at the battle of al-Dimas.

In August 1859 Lincoln at the behest of M & M attorney Norman Judd traveled to Council Bluffs to inspect M & M facilities that were to be used to secure a $ 3, 000 loan Lincoln was to hold.

* August 12 – King Henry V of England begins using English in correspondence ( back to England from France whilst on campaign ), marking the beginning of this king's continuous usage of English in prose, and the beginning of the restoration of English as an official language for the first time since the Norman Conquest, some 350 years earlier.

* August 10 – Second Battle of Athenry ends with over 5, 000 dead, and Norman rule retained in Ireland.

* August 24 – the Byzantine city of Thessalonica is sacked by the Norman Sicilian troops.

During August 1813, escaped prisoners from Norman Cross were discovered as far away as Hampshire.

On August 12, 1970 Stonehill was led to Christ by Larry Norman in the kitchen of Norman's apartment at 1140 North Gower Street, Hollywood.

Norman and Mason reunited in 1974 for a benefit concert for Israel at UCLA, later released in 1980 as the live album Larry Norman and People !— The Israel Tapes — 1974 A. D. Norman, Fridkin and Mason came together in August 2006 for a People!

In October 1970 Norman and Randy Stonehill, who had only become a Christian in August, were among those who performed at an Earth Harvest concert at Thy Brother's House, a Jesus coffee house near the campus of California State University at Fullerton, California.

By August 1970 Norman had moved to a three room " little white cottage " at 6007 Carlos Avenue, Hollywood, near the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood.

" In 1971 Norman produced an album ( Born Twice ) for Randy Stonehill, who had been converted in August 1970 in Norman's kitchen.